Comment Re: Therr are cheaper ways to create a bonfire ... (Score 3, Informative) 93
I recently bought a Raspberry Pi 4. I have found that it's not even useful as a doorstop. The only two distributions that I've been able to get it get to run on it are raspbian and Arch. Also you can't get any operating system to run full clean 64-bit on them. They're all 32 bit , while the processors are 64-bit. Other distributions promise that they're going to be supporting the Raspberry Pi 4 soon.
I'm sure it works great for emulation and farting around with. But in my working with it without any fan cooling it appears to overheat. I was going to try to make it into a NAS but it is far too unreliable to copy large files.
For the record it's a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4 gigs of RAM. I put a heat sink on the processor. I paid near $100 for a kit with a starter card pre-installed the case the board and the power supply. I have friends who stand by them but I think it's the "little computer that can't".